The Tiepogovogo Village

Sunday morning I got to go into the Nyarafolo Tiepogovogo village. This is the village where Linn and Glenn do their ministry. Originally I was supposed to ride down there with Rebecca on her moto but the moto ended up breaking down with in the first 5 minutes of our ride. But that’s ok because my 5 minute moto ride was awesome! (Pictures coming soon!) So in light of the moto breaking down, I got to ride into the village with Linn, Glenn and the other 3 girls.  Linn and Glenn have been doing ministry with the Nyarafolo people since the 80’s. There is a church pretty well established in the Tiepogovogo village and there are other church plants in the works in other villages. It is really amazing to sit down and talk with them about their ministry and their hearts for the Nyarafolo people. Linn is the head of the translation team that is working on getting the whole bible translated into Nyarafolo.  My first day here in Cote d’Ivoire I sat down with her and got to talk with her all about the translation project. It is absolutely incredible. There is so much work that goes into translating the bible into another language. It blew my mind. So with all that said, I was really excited to get to see this village where Linn and Glen do their work!

Once we got to village we had to go around and greet everyone.  We got to walk around the whole village and see everything! It was so cool. We even got to go into one of the huts! The women live in round huts and men live in rectangle huts. All the huts of a family are centered around a middle courtyard. After we met and greeted everyone, we walked up to the church.

Worshiping with the Nyarafolo people was so amazing. It was such an amazing feeling to know that the God that they are singing to in Nyarafolo is the same God that I sing to in English. After we sang some songs, prayer requests were shared and announcements were said. Me, Lindsay, Heather and Sarah were then all introduced to the whole church! Then the pastor came up and preached out of Number 22. Linn was so kind to translate all of the songs and the sermon for us. After the sermon was over, me and the other 3 girls got to be the first to leave the chapel. Everyone then came out and shook our hands, welcomed us and thanked us for coming. It was really sweet.

After church was over we were invited to stay and have lunch with the village. We had rice with a choice of a peanut sauce or a green leaf sauce. I chose both! They were both very good!

This is the church

Inside the church

Lunch after church

Picture outside the village!

The village

 On our way back into town we stopped and had our picture taken with a termite mound. Pretty crazy, huh?